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March 20, 2005
Random stuff
So I was browsing TitanTV looking for things to record with my EyeTV on my PowerMac G5, when I saw that a show called Spring Break Shark Attack was going to start soon. I realised that there's something wrong with our society when I was looking for a Fox-esque reality show about Spring Breaking college students who are attacked by sharks and amazingly caught on video. I was dissapointed to learn that it was a crappy 'Jaws' knockoff.
In other news, I got something in class last week that I thought might amuse, stolen from Marie Laberge who borrowed it from a book. I'm reprinting it here without permission from either.
This wonderful questionnaire was handed out to all hundred students in class. There was great dismay.
"WOMS 201 - Sexuality
Heterosexuality is taken for granted by many people who do not stop to consider why people become heterosexuals. The following exercise is designed to help you examine heterosexuality by asking they type of questions typically asked of homosexuals.
You should read through and think about "answers" to these questions and how they make you feel.
1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
2. When and how did you decide that you were heterosexual?
3. Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase that you may grow out of?
4. If you have never slept with a member of your own sex, is it possible that all you need is a good gay/lesbian lover?
5. Why do you exist on flaunting your heterosexuality? Can't you just be who you are and keep it quiet?
6. Would you want your child to be heterosexual, knowing the problems she/he would face?
7. In spite of all the societal support that marriage receives, the divorce rate is spiraling. Why are there so few stable relationships between heterosexuals?
8. Just what do men and women do in bed together? How can they truly know how to please each other, being so anatomically different?"
I then spent the remainder of the class trying to convince the rest of my group (all girls) that they were very possibly lesbians, and could not argue with me, as they had not met all the women in the world. Essentially, I said that if they were not sexually attracted to all men, then, without meeting all women they could not say that they were not attracted to any of them. They might simply have higher standards for other women. I think my group doesn't like me very much anymore. I spoke to them last class about the societal evils promoted by women's mag's like cosmopolitan. They did not take kindly.
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March 17, 2005
Requiem for Alaska
Sigh. Where to begin. First I hear that the Senate essentailly voted to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I would like to stress the word REFUGE. That word is defined as "A place providing protection or shelter." I looked around a lot. I couldn't find any definition that contained the word oil. This disturbs me. It should be fixed. It can only pass, however, if congress manages to agreee on a budget. That's not going to happen anytime soon, and even the freaks from Alaska are saying that it's going to take a while still until drilling could begin. Signs of the Apocalpse. That's what I say.
Then there was all this business about Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank. This is bad people. The World Bank is intended to help fix poverty internationally. I don't think anyone from the Bush administration is qualified to do so. They have failed abysmally to do so domestically and have cause irreperable harm to America's government. That seeems to me like maybe we should not be letting the same people kill the rest of thw world. sigh.
Oh, and Nepal has been described as being 'near [a] humanitarian abyss' whatever that means. If we can't focus on fixing the world's problems, can we at least stop creating new ones? Is that so much to ask?
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March 16, 2005
Campus activism
It's always good to see people out in force to demonstrate their political conscience. One of the liberal groups on campus (it's hard to say which one since the same people are in all of them) was out holding a mock gay wedding. In the same place as the abortion thing was going on a few weeks ago. Same people as the peace protest that was protested by the republicans.
Site news: I'm trying to prevent all search engines from archiving the blog entries to prevent any future problems with people I am or will be invlved with. Given the incidents with China and the University of Delaware last spring, I thought it'd be best. How this affects you: You may still search the archived entries on this site, but not from a search engine. That means for the rare few of you who haven't yet done so, either memorize or bookmark the URL. DanielSiders.com Also, I finally got my new Powermac G5, so the New Zealand photos might actually get processed sometime soon.
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